There’s a World Video Game Hall of Fame now, and the first class of inductees was announced yesterday. Pong, Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Doom, and World of Warcraft are to video games what Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, and Honus Wagner are to baseball.
Canonball—the process of assembling a canon—is one of my favorite games, because it never ends and no one can win. It’s an intellectual endless runner. The Strong National Museum of Play and its selection committee did a perfectly acceptable job, and the Strong is a terrific museum in Rochester, N.Y., that you should visit. Yet I also think there’s a tragic mistake in the inaugural class: Ms. Pac-Man should have made the cut instead of her overbearing husband.
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